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Anant Vishnu Narlikar
Anant Vishnu Narlikar
Born	March 31, 1940; Kolhapur, India
Alma mater	Banaras Hindu University
Spouse	Aruna Narlikar
Children	Amrita Narlikar
	Scientific career
Fields	superconductivity and nanostructures

Anant Vishnu Narlikar is a scientist working in experimental superconductivity and superconducting materials. Narlikar is also a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Superconductivity and Cryoscience Division, Department of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.^{[citation needed]}

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Narlikar obtained his BSc and MSc from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.^{[citation needed]} He was awarded the BHU Holkar Fellowship and Peterhouse Research Studentship to pursue his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge.^{[citation needed]} He received his PhD from Cambridge in 1965, where he was also awarded the Tait Memorial Prize at Peterhouse.^{[citation needed]} His Ph.D. thesis on "Superconductivity in Niobium and Niobium Alloys" (Cambridge University, 1965) was one of the first doctoral theses written on Type-II superconductors in UK.^{[citation needed]}

After four years of post-doctoral research in the UK, he returned to India to conduct pioneering research in the field of superconductivity.^{[citation needed]} He established the first research group dealing with Superconducting Materials in India in 1973 at the National Physical Laboratory.^{[citation needed]} He has also been a pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and was the first scientist in India to use scanning tunneling microscopy to study nanostructures in superconductors from 1989 onwards. ^{[citation needed]} He worked extensively with SPM (STM/STS/AFM) technique for nanostructure investigation of high Tc superconductors, fullerene based compounds as well as various borocarbides and magnesium diboride. ^{[citation needed]}

He is married to the artist and author Dr Aruna Narlikar. ^{[citation needed]} Their only child is Amrita Narlikar, a political economist at the University of Cambridge.^{[citation needed]}

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Narlikar is Fellow of Indian National Science Academy.^[1] He is based at the UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, University Campus, Indore, India.^{[citation needed]} He is also a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Superconductivity and Cryoscience Group,^{[citation needed]} of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. He is the author or editor of sixty books, and over 300 papers.^{[citation needed]}

Narlikar received the Sc.D. degree from the University of Cambridge^{[citation needed]}.

In India, he has been awarded numerous academic distinctions including the FIE Foundation Award for Science & Technology, 2000;^{[citation needed]} Homi Jehangir Bhabha Medal 1996 of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA); A.N. Khosla Gold Medal and National Award, 1994; MRSI (India) Superconductivity Award, 1990; Chatterjee Gold Medal, 1977 of Indian Cryogenics Council. Anant Narlikar is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) and National Academy of Sciences, India (Allahabad).^{[citation needed]} Formerly, he was also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) and the Institution of Metallurgists (UK).^{[citation needed]}

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